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1 Classical Music 2020– 21 2 Classical Music 2019– 20 2020–21 weekender SoundUnboundreturns, juxtaposing Anatomy of Melancholy whileourfree classical music through collaborations suchasAn we willbeblurringthelinesof theatre and With violinist of Milton Courtto theone-of-a-kind Finnish Santa Cecilia.We willalsobehandingthekeys the Chorusof theAccademia Nazionaledi with JonasKaufmann, Anita Rachvelishvili and will seeSirAntonio Pappano collaborating Metropolitan Opera whilePappano andFriends LSO, IlPomo d’Oro andtheOrchestra of the return to theBarbicanincompany of the birthday boy himself. Joyce DiDonato will Gustavo Dudamel,Franz Welser-Möst andthe and conductors includingSirSimonRattle, Orchestra andAustralian ChamberOrchestra Los AngelesPhilharmonic,TheCleveland London Symphony Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, 50th birthday withorchestras includingthe This year we willcelebrate ThomasAdès’s boundaries to break new ground. of aprogramme thatcrosses genres and international artistsandensembles,aspart that connectsaudienceswiththegreatest We are committed to presenting aseason season. Music Classical 2020–21 our to Welcome Classical Music Arts withoutBoundariesasourmantra, Pekka Kuusisto asArtist-in-Residence.

Head of Music Huw Humphreys to joinusalongtheway. great experiences. We hopethatyou willchoose to another year of great music,great artistsand Chamber Orchestra –we are lookingforward Music, LosAngelesPhilharmonicandAustralian Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Academy of Ancient Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony orchestras andensembles–theLondon Together withourresident andassociate Future isFemale. on 400years of female compositioninThe imbalances inmusic,suchasshiningaspotlight steps to address theboundariesof historic the Culture Mile.We willalsocontinueto take unexpected soundsinunexpected places across Ghosts, gold-diggers,sorcerers andlovers days andfestivals Go beneaththesurface of themusicinthesethemed Deep dives Six incredible artistsyou’ll want to know better Artists inthespotlight Contents Awesome orchestras ultimate dramatic form: opera Travel to mystical worlds andnew frontiers inmusic’s Choral highlights Agile chamberensemblesandpowerful symphonic juggernauts Discover theBarbican Epic anthemsandmoving songsto stirthesoul Piano virtuosos Get more outof your visit Songs to make your heartsing Six superbpianistsputtingourpianosthrough theirpaces Classical futures Discover theinfinite versatility of thevoice Booking information and audiences Introducing thenext generation of musicians,conductors Where andhow to book,multibuys, andother discounts

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3 Classical Music 2020– 21 4 Classical Music 2020– 21 masters thatfollowed. from thedawn of opera andtheBaroque hand-picked selectionof herfavourite arias 21 Oct,1&5Nov Orchestra, to markhis50th. Resident Orchestra, theLondonSymphony The Tempest , andaspecialconcertwithour music trilogy, hiscrowning operatic achievement include hisDante-inspired, showstopping ballet greatest contemporary composers.Highlights A season-longcelebration of oneof theUK’s Thomas Adès at50 21 &22May, 28Jun 13 Sep,12 &20Oct,7Mar, inthespotlight Artists project the Metropolitan Opera; andinherlatest solo from Berlioz’sLesTroyens withtheOrchestra of his Pappano &Friendsseries;singingextracts as aspecialguestof SirAntonio Pappano in The inspirational mezzojoinsusthree times: Favourite Things Joyce DiDonato’s 1 Nov, 5Dec,29Jun Shostakovich. violin concertos –by Elgar, Szymanowski and focus to the20thcenturyandthree of itsgreat repertoire, violinistChristianTetzlaff turnshis home inClassical,Romantic andcontemporary An incredibly versatile musicianequallyat Christian Tetzlaff LSO ArtistPortrait: My Favourite Things, performing a

Green Umbrella series. from theircutting-edgecontemporary classical baton to Adès himself inafree late-night concert to life, whileDudamelpassestheconductor’s Thomas Adès’s Dante-inspired balletmusic Bjarnason andGabriellaSmith.They alsobring European premieres of new works by Daníel from Beethoven andMahler alongside Orchestral Partner perform titanic symphonies Gustavo DudamelandourInternational Philharmonic Residency Los Angeles 21–23 May Quartet for theEndof Time. Chamber Orchestra; andMessiaen’s ecstatic Missy Mazzoli;adate withtheNorwegian Nico Muhly, PhilipGlass,Andrea Tarrodi and ride taking intraditional Finnishfolk; musicby alive’ (Telegraph). Prepare for arollercoaster personal soundof any classicalviolinistnow one-of-a-kind virtuosowhopossesses‘themost We’ve given thekeys to Milton Courtto the Artist-in-Residence Pekka Kuusisto: Milton Court 10 Dec,26Feb,4&5May recitals. to share thespotlight withhimintwo intimate and superstar-in-the-making Anita Rachvelishvili Chorus, andinvites superstar JonasKaufmann his family’s Italian roots withhisSanta Cecilia guest –conductingtheLSO,makes anodto He continuesalong-standing partnership artists andinfluences thatare dearto hisheart. The great conductor andpianistbringstogether Pappano &Friends 1 Nov, 23Mar, 16 May, 25Jun

5 Classical Music 2020– 21 © Simon Pauly September Poulenc Pedro Itturalde Pequeñ ECHO RisingStars Jess Gillam Fri 11 Sep1pm,LSOSt Luke’s Netia Jonesdirector Thomas Dunford lute DaviescountertenorIestyn melancholy, sadness anddepression. the consolationthatbeautycanprovide for theatrical piece,aforensic examination of Dowland’s songsinthisintimate andabsorbing Embrace thepleasure andpainof John An Anatomy of Melancholy 9–12 Sep,ThePit stated otherwise unless Hall take inthe place concerts All Marcello Graham FitkinGate creativity and exploring the relationship our inner between lives ayear Out: Inside and Presents Barbican of Part New York Center Lincoln and Barbican the by Co-produced European Union and the Creative Europe Programme of the Europe Futures Classical Wellcome, by Supported fee* booking plus Tickets £35 Presents Barbican of Part Tickets £12 fee* booking plus Sage Gateshead) Jess Gillamsaxophone (nominated by John HarleRANT! Sat 12 Sep 3pm 12 3pm Sat Sep Sonata for OboeandPiano Oboe Concerto inCminor

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multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–60 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) Peter Donohoepiano Sir SimonRattle conductor London Symphony Orchestra the Orchestra Britten Her Face Thomas Adès ‘LuxurySuite’ from Powder Tippett (world premiere; LSOcommission) Mark-Anthony Turnage LastSongfor Olly Thomas Adès at50 Orchestra/Rattle London Symphony Sun 13 Sep7pm fee* booking plus only) (£16Tickets £22 afternoon music intheafternoon. Simon Rattle followed by talks andchamber Attend amorningrehearsal conducted by Sir of the20thcentury Great Britishcomposers LSO Discovery Day: Sun 13 Sep10am, Hall&LSOSt Luke’s Jess Gillam©Kaupo Kikkas The Young Person’s Guideto Piano Concerto

7 Classical Music Sep 2020 8 Classical Music Sep 2020 Lunchtime Concert LSO Discovery: Free Friday Orchestra/Gražinyte City of BirminghamSymphony Part of LSO multibuy multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–60 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) Sir SimonRattle conductor London Symphony Orchestra Brahms Symphony No2 and Isolde Wagner ‘Prelude’ and‘Liebestod’ from Tristan Webern SixPieces Wagner ‘Prelude’ to Lohengrin Ligeti Wed 23Sep7.30pm Presents Barbican of Part Part of International Members Orchestras multibuy fee* Tickets booking £15–56 plus Nicola Benedettiviolin Mirga Gražinyte ofCity BirminghamSymphony Orchestra Stravinsky Sibelius Ravel Mon 21 Sep7.30pm Free event Fri 18 Sep12.30pm, LSOSt Luke’s LSO/Rattle Atmosphères Atmosphères La valse Violin Concerto

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* pay booking fees fees booking pay don't &Young Barbican Members Barbican Office. Box the from person in purchased are tickets when fee booking no is There per transaction: £3 online, £4 by telephone. The following booking fees are applicable fees Booking Chorus &JazzOrchestra Guildhall Symphony Orchestra, LSO Discovery SingingDay Tickets £22 plus booking fee* booking plus Tickets £22 Simon Halsey conductor (accompanied by piano). Come andsingOrff’sCarminaBurana Sun 27Sep11am, LSOSt Luke’s Tickets £10–15 fee* booking plus Richard Farnes conductor & Chorus Guildhall Symphony Orchestra Elington SuchSweet Thunder Walton R Strauss Programme to include: Fri 25Sep7.30pm Belshazzar’s Feast

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2020–21 season the Classical Music Be first to book barbican.org.uk/membership Join now a first-come, first served basis. website orcalltheBox Office. Places willbeallocated on To find outmore andbookyour place, pleasevisitthe Paul Keene (ClassicalMusicProgrammer). season withHuwHumphreys (Head of Music)and event on5 March. Joinusfor adiscussionaboutthenew Don’t missourClassicalMusicSeasonMembers’Launch receptions andopenrehearsals, andmore. no bookingfees, access exclusive members’events including booking for thisseason,save withmultibuydiscountsand Become amemberandenjoy upto aweek of priority Public bookingopens:16 March Members prioritybookingopens:11 March Members Plusprioritybookingopens:9March a BarbicanMember Experience more world-class musicfor lessas

9 Classical Music 2020–21 © Mark Allan 10 Classical Music 2020– 21 Sat 12 Dec contemporary practitioners. dive into four days of concertsfrom its finest that characterise itsrichmusicalheritage, then rhythms andvirtuosicraga improvisations a day-long introduction to thehypnotic tala Indian ClassicalMusicfestival. Embarkon classical musictradition intheUK’sleading Throw yourself into acompletely different Darbar Festival 26 Sep–4Oct Deep dives Baroque keyboard pioneer. on theplayful work andtechnical mastery of this Zylberajch offer three contrasting perspectives Angela Hewitt andfortepiano specialist Aline Harpsichordist MahanEsfahani, pianist of Scarlatti’smostpassionate champions. Spend anafternoon inthecompany of three Explore Scarlatti Sun 31 Jan to Augusta Read Thomas. at Tanglewood over theyears, from Elliott Carter some of theincredible musicandartistsnurtured Guildhall Schoolof Music&Drama explore Symphony Orchestra –andmusiciansfrom London, ourAssociate Orchestra –theBBC classical musicfestival andlearningcentre to Bringing thespiritof America’srevolutionary Totally Tanglewood BBC SOTotal Immersion:

the future of classicalmusicinthe21st century. Unbound explores thelimitlesspotential pathsof against theBarbican’sstark brutalism, Sound churches to iconicclassicalmasterpieces offset edge contemporary work incenturies-old in ourfree weekend musicfestival. From cutting- Discover unexpected musicinunexpected places Sound Unbound 17–18 Apr folklore andmythology of hisFinnishhomeland. evocative musicalresponses to thesagas, School musicians,showcasing Sibelius’s Sakari Oramo, theBBC SingersandGuildhall concerts from theBBC SOandChiefConductor beautiful world of JeanSibeliusinaday of Venture into thestrange, magical anddeeply Sibelius theStoryteller BBC SOTotal Immersion: Sat 13 Mar present day. composers from thepast400years to the music anddiscussionshiningalightonfemale musician Sarah Cahillpresent aday of piano canon, guestcurator HelenWallace and music by female composersinto theclassical Two truechampionsinthefight to bringmore The Future isFemale Sat 6Mar

11 Classical Music 2020– 21 Darbar Festival appreciation course Indian Music Tickets £20–50 plus booking fee* booking plus Tickets £20–50 Sarwar HussainKhansarangi Shahbaz Hussaintabla Ustad Waseem Ahmed Khankhayal vocal N Guruprasad ghatam K UJayachandra Rao mridangam Akkarai SSornalathacarnaticviolin Akkarai SSubhalakshmicarnaticviolin ragas and the improvised musicof khayal. Hindustani musicinarepertoire of expressive A doublebillfeaturing both Carnaticand Fri 2Oct6.30pm,Milton Court fee* booking plus Tickets £20–50 Milind Kulkarni harmoniumnagma Sukhwinder Singhtabla Debjit Patitundi tabla Pratik Shrivastav sarod Ayan Sengupta sitar double bill. joined by someof thebestemerging artistsinthis One of thefinest international tabla masters is + YoungMasters Sukhwinder Singh Thu 1Oct6.30pm,Milton Court fee* booking plus Tickets £50 Harmeet Virdee sitar Sukhdeep Dhanjaltabla and raga musicinanall-day workshop. A beginner’sinsightinto tala rhythmic cycles Sat 26Sep10am, Frobisher Rooms partnership withBarbican Presented by Darbarin Darbar Festival 2020 26 Sep–4Oct,Across theCentre Ustad WaseemKhan + AkkaraiSisters

Uday Bhawalkar + Alam Khan Rooms Sat 3&Sun4Oct10.30am, Frobisher fee*Tickets £15–28 booking plus Debjit Patitundi tabla Sarwar HussainKhansarangi sounds of thesarangi. Gently wake upto thesublime,lamenting Sat 3Oct10am, Milton Court Sat 3Oct6.30pm,Milton Court fee*Tickets £15–28 booking plus Shahbaz Hussaintabla Milind Kulkarni harmonium Bharati Pratap khayal vocal Emotive afternoon ragas. Sat 3Oct2pm,Milton Court fee* booking plus Tickets £20 Kanwal Ahluwalia yoga teacher Yogabliss to Live Music Tickets £20–50 plus booking fee* booking plus Tickets £20–50 Sukhwinder Singhjori Uday Bhawalkar dhrupad vocals Satyajit Talwalkar tabla Alam Khansarod sarod pieces. music perform aselectiondhrupad vocal and Two contemporary masters of traditional Indian Hussain Khan Morning Sarangi withSarwar Pratap Soulful Khayal with Bharati

* pay booking fees fees booking pay don't &Young Barbican Members Barbican Office. Box the from person in purchased are tickets when fee booking no is There per transaction: £3 online, £4 by telephone. The following booking fees are applicable fees Booking Unwrapped UstadKhan AliAkbar Tickets £18–100 fee* booking plus Milind Kulkarni harmonium Sarwar HussainKhansarangi Satyajit Talwalkar tabla Kaushiki Chakraborty vocal Sukhwinder Singhjori/tabla Pandit Kushal Dassitar Ravi Shankar’s birthexploring late nightragas. India’s maestros celebrate 100 years sincePandit Sun 4Oct5.30pm fee*Tickets £10 booking plus Carnatic performance pieceby piece. and violinistrespectively –take you through a The Akkarai Sisters –adistinguishedvocalist Unwrapped Carnatic Performance Sun 4Oct2.30pm,Fountain Room fee*Tickets £10 booking plus Alam Khansarod scores, ragas andvirtuosicsarod player. Performative lecture aboutthecomposerof film Sun 4Oct12pm, Fountain Room of India Sitar andKhayal Maestros

13 Classical Music Darbar Festival October * pay booking fees fees booking pay don't &Young Barbican Members Barbican Office. Box the from person in purchased are tickets when fee booking no is There per transaction: £3 online, £4 by telephone. The following booking fees are applicable fees Booking Lunchtime Concert LSO Discovery: Free Friday Oramo BBC Symphony Orchestra/ concert) plusconcert) booking fee* Tickets £10 (£8 for ticket-holders to the 7.30pm Anna Tilbrook piano Grace Rossiter conductor BBC Singers (arr Rossiter/Jeffes) R Strauss ‘Gefunden’from SixSongs Ives Four Duets Brahms ‘Esrauschet dasWasser’ from Rossiter/Jeffes) Brahms Songs Beethoven Programme to include: Singers atSix Fri 9Oct6pm,St Giles’Cripplegate Free event Fri 9Oct12.30pm, LSOSt Luke’s multibuy SO BBC of Part fee*Tickets £12–40 booking plus Sakari Oramo conductor BBC Symphony Orchestra Mahler Jörg WidmannTanz aufdemVulkan Sat 3Oct7.30pm Goethe inSong Ilmenau (arr Gottwald) Symphony No6 ‘Phänomen’ from FourDuets (arr

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BBC SO&Melodica Men multibuy SO BBC of Part fee*Tickets £12–40 booking plus Melodica Men David CharlesAbellconductor BBC Symphony Orchestra debut of YouTube sensationsthe MelodicaMen. Prepare for anightof musicalmayhem intheUK Fri 9Oct7.30pm Melodica Men

Welser-Möst The Cleveland Orchestra/ Presents Barbican of Part Part of International Members Orchestras multibuy fee* Tickets booking £15–56 plus Igor Levit piano Franz Welser-Möst conductor The Cleveland Orchestra Scriabin Mozart co-commission) Thomas Adès AngelSymphony (Barbican Thomas Adès at50 Mon 12 Oct7.30pm Piano Concerto No9 Symphony No2

15 Classical Music Oct 2020 16 Classical Music Oct 2020 LSO/Gardiner Bartók Stravinsky Thu 15 Oct7.30pm Presents Barbican of Part Part of International Members Orchestras multibuy fee*Tickets £15–51 booking plus Choeur Accentus Laurence Equilbey conductor Insula Orchestra Mozart Cherubini Mozart Tue 13 Oct7.30pm multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–60 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) Piotr Anderszewski piano Sir JohnEliot Gardiner conductor London Symphony Orchestra Stravinsky Requiem Insula Orchestra: Mozart’s * pay booking fees fees booking pay don't &Young Barbican Members Barbican Office. Box the from person in purchased There is no booking fee when tickets are tickets when fee booking no is There per transaction: £3 online, £4 by telephone. The following booking fees are applicable fees Booking Piano Concerto No3 Requiem Masonic Funeral Music Marche funèbre Circus Polka (for ayoung elephant) The Fairy’sKiss

LSO Discovery Family Concert multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £10–16 fee* under-18s £5 booking plus adults, Free Family Workshops 12–2.15pm BarbicanFoyers Suitable for 7-to 12-year-olds London Symphony Orchestra Sun 18 Oct2.30pm announced to be Ticket information LSO musicians Jerwood composer. at theculminationof histimeasanLSO An evening of new musiccurated by DesOliver, Sat 17 Oct7.30pm, LSOSt Luke’s multibuy SO BBC of Part fee*Tickets £12–40 booking plus Lise delaSallepiano Lionel Bringuierconductor BBC Symphony Orchestra Prokofiev Ravel Bonis Fri 16 Oct7.30pm BBC SO/Bringuier Des Oliver LSO Jerwood Composer+: Piano Concerto in G major PianoConcerto inGmajor Le songedeCléopâtre Symphony No4(revised version)

Tue 20Oct7.30pm, Milton Court Part of International Members Orchestras multibuy Estonia of Embassy the by Supported fee*Tickets £15–41 booking plus Estonian Philharmonic ChamberChoir Richard Tognetti director &violin Australian ChamberOrchestra Arvo PärtBerlinerMesse Sculthorpe Galina Grigorjeva InParadisum Der GeisthilftunserSchwachheit auf J SBach Lobet denHerrn, alleHeiden Arvo Pärt‘Toccata’ from Collage onB-A-C-H J SBach Singet demHerrn einneuesLied Arvo PärtSumma J SBach Komm, Jesu,komm Arvo PärtDapacem Domine Bach &Pärt Australian ChamberOrchestra: Mon 19 Oct7.30pm Presents Barbican of Part International Associate EnsembleatMilton Court Australian ChamberOrchestra Part of International Members Orchestras multibuy fee*Tickets £15–41 booking plus Richard Tognetti director &violin Australian ChamberOrchestra (arr Tognetti) Janácˇ ek String Quartet No1, Kreutzer Sonata Thomas Adès New work (world premiere) Kreutzer Beethoven Thomas Adès at50 Kreutzer Sonata Australian ChamberOrchestra: (arr Tognetti) Sonata No9inAmajor, Op47 Djilile

Jonny Greenwood Popcorn Superhet Receiver Bryce Dessner Lutosławski Wed 21 Oct7.30pm, Milton Court Part of International Members Orchestras multibuy fee* Tickets £15–36 booking plus Guildhall Schoolmusicians Richard Tognetti director &violin Australian ChamberOrchestra (arr Tognetti) Szymanowski String Quartet No2 There WillBeBlood:Suite Jonny Greenwood Selected movements from String Quartet No1 Style Penderecki ‘Aria’from Three PiecesinBaroque Indies &Idols Australian ChamberOrchestra:

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17 Classical Music Australian Chamber Orchestra 18 Classical Music Oct 2020 Nathalie Stutzmann ©SimonFowler Elgar LSO ArtistPortrait Wed 21 Oct7.30pm multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–60 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) Christian Tetzlaff violin Robin Ticciaticonductor London Symphony Orchestra Brahms Symphony No4 LSO/Ticciati &Christian Tetzlaff Violin Concerto

multibuy SO BBC of Part fee*Tickets £12–40 booking plus Roderick Williamsbaritone Johan Daleneviolin Dalia Stasevska conductor BBC Symphony Orchestra Janácˇ ek Sinfonietta Mahler the SpiderDance John Adams LolaMontez does Kaija Saariaho Orion Bruch Thu 22Oct7.30pm celebration BBC SO:90thbirthday Violin Concerto No1 Early Songs(orch Berio)

London Dance BBC Singers/Jeannin &East Bernstein Fri 23Oct7.30pm, Milton Court multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–60 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) François-Xavier Roth conductor London Symphony Orchestra Berlioz Arcana Varèse Wed 28Oct6.30pm Tickets £12–25 fee* booking plus Members of East LondonDance Anna Tilbrook piano Libby Burgess piano Sofi Jeanninconductor BBC Singers (version withtwo-piano accompaniment) Brahms Tormis Amy Bryce multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–35 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) François-Xavier Roth conductor &presenter London Symphony Orchestra Arcana Varèse Symphonie fantastique Thu 29Oct7.30pm Berlioz Half SixFix LSO/Roth LSO/Roth: Varèse

Curse UponIron Ionisation Ionisation Symphonie fantastique ‘March to theScaffold’ from A GermanRequiem Missa brevis From FirstBreath

* pay booking fees fees booking pay don't &Young Barbican Members Barbican Office. Box the from person in purchased are tickets when fee booking no is There per transaction: £3 online, £4 by telephone. The following booking fees are applicable Booking fees Booking Hollie Harding LSO Jerwood Composer+: BBC SO/Stutzmann Fri 30Oct7.30pm multibuy AAM of Part fee* Tickets £15–35 booking plus Free to ticket-holders Pre-concert talk 6.30pm Robert Levin director &soloist Academy of AncientMusic J CBach andLMozart Chamber andorchestral works by JSBach, Ticket information to be announced to be Ticket information LSO musicians LSO Jerwood composer. Harding, attheculminationof hertimeasan An evening of new musiccurated by Hollie Sat 31 Oct7.30pm, LSOSt Luke’s multibuy SO BBC of Part fee*Tickets £12–40 booking plus BBC Symphony Chorus Nathalie Stutzmann conductor BBC Symphony Orchestra R Strauss Song of Destiny Song of theFates Brahms W AMozartPianoConcertos Nos1, 2&3,K107 Programme to include: Thu 29Oct7.30pm, Milton Court Robert Levin: &Bach Mozart Nänie Also sprach Zarathustra

19 Classical Music Oct 2020 20 Classical Music 2020– 21 from women of theperiod. Sellars’s libretto builtaround genuineaccounts UK premiere of hislatest opera, withPeter conducts theBBC Symphony Orchestra inthe in GoldRushCalifornia. Thecomposerhimself picture of feral frontiersmen andracial tension corrective Americanhistory paints aharsh Golden West atthedoor–JohnAdams’s Leave allromanticised notions of Puccini’s Girls of theGoldenWest Sun 17 Jan doors to aworld of new harmonicpossibilities. seminal romantic opera, whichthrew openthe as thedoomedlovers inAct Two of Wagner’s Wagnerians NinaStemme andStuart Skelton Sir SimonRattle conductstheLSOandbrilliant Tristan andIsoldeAct Two 29 Nov &1Dec the edgeof avolcano’. existence –whichBerg likened to ‘dancingon uncertainty andupheaval dictating theirvery of composersandcreatives navigating the this time,examining thevaried responses volatile politicallandscapeinandaround Orchestra’s season-longexploration of the mark thebeginningof theLondonSymphony by ChristianGerhaher. Theseperformances by SirSimonRattle withanall-star castled Alban Berg’s explosive opera, conducted here atmosphere of Weimar Germany quite like No work encapsulates thefrenzied creative Wozzeck 15 &17 Sep soldiers andlovers Ghosts, gold-diggers,

Ariel willtake your breath away. stratospheric soprano writingfor Audrey Luna’s Associate EnsembleBritten Sinfonia, whilethe A superbensemblecastisbacked by our incandescent, often ravishing’ (Guardian). achievements to date, ‘by turnsethereal, witty, drama isarguably thepinnacle of his Thomas Adès’s operatic take onShakespeare’s The Tempest Mon 28Jun Aeneas’s jealouswife Lavinia. for Dido’ssister –Annaatthehandsof Ovid, where tragedy threatens to repeat itself Dido andAeneas withinahauntingstory from Errollyn Wallen’s new opera frames Purcell’s of contemporary Britishmusic’(Observer). A world premiere from the‘renaissance woman Dido’s Ghost Sat 5Jun unwaveringly engaging theatre’ (Opera Today ). up another evening of ‘delightfullyand and HarryBicket isfullyprepared to serve are glorioushighlightsof ourmusicalyear, The EnglishConcert’sannualHandeloperas Tamerlano Mon 12 Apr

21 Classical Music 2020– 21 Audrey Luna as Ariel in the Met’s Tempest © Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera Thomas Adès at50

November * pay booking fees fees booking pay don't &Young Barbican Members Barbican Office. Box the from person in purchased are tickets when fee booking no is There per transaction: £3 online, £4 by telephone. The following booking fees are applicable fees Booking Isata Kanneh-Mason inrecital Barber Chopin C SchumannNocturneNo2,Op6 Field Beethoven Tue 3Nov 7.30pm, Milton Court Portrait Artist &LSO Things Favourite DiDonato’s Joyce of Part LSO and Barbican by Produced multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–60 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) Christian Tetzlaff violin Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano Sir Antonio Pappano conductor London Symphony Orchestra Liszt Duparc Selected songs Szymanowski ViolinConcerto No1 Martinu˚ Frescoes of Piero dellaFrancesca Pappano &Friends Sun 1Nov 7pm Presents Barbican of Part Part of International Members multibuy Soloists fee* Tickets £15–36 booking plus Isata Kanneh-Mason piano Barber Gershwin Nocturne No7Assezallant Poulenc LSO/Pappano Les Préludes Nocturne No5inB-flat major Nocturne, Op 33 Nocturne, Op33 Piano Sonata inE-flat minor Nocturne No13 inCminor, Op48No1 Nocturne No5Phalènes Three Preludes

Sonata No2inAmajor, Op2No

No 2

multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–60 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) Christian Tetzlaff violin Susanna Mälkkiconductor London Symphony Orchestra Zemlinsky Sibelius Shostakovich ViolinConcerto No1 LSO ArtistPortrait LSO/Mälkki &Christian Tetzlaff Thu 5Nov 7.30pm Tickets £10–15 fee* booking plus Takuo Yuasaconductor Guildhall Symphony Orchestra Sibelius Janácˇ ekSinfonietta Dvorˇ ákHusitská Guildhall Symphony Orchestra Wed 4Nov 7.30pm Sir Antonio Pappano ©Musacchio &Ianniello Symphony No1 Tapiola Sinfonietta

Overture

Simon Halsey chorusdirector Chorus Gentlemen of theLondonSymphony Alexander Vinogradov bass Simon Trpcˇ eskipiano Gianandrea Nosedaconductor London Symphony Orchestra Shostakovich Prokofiev multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–60 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) Composers Scheme † (world premiere) George Stevenson New work Sun 8Nov 7pm fee*Tickets £15–£42 booking plus Free to ticket-holders Pre-concert talk 6.30pm Roderick Williamsbaritone Sir MarkElderconductor Britten Sinfonia Brahms Symphony No3 Mahler Vaughan Williams Sat 7Nov 7.30pm multibuy SO BBC of Part fee*Tickets £12–40 booking plus Anu Komsi soprano Sakari Oramo conductor BBC Symphony Orchestra R SchumannSymphony No4 Magnus Lindberg Copland Woman No1 Joan Tower Fri 6Nov 7.30pm Britten Sinfonia/Elder LSO/Noseda BBC SO/Oramo Commissioned throughCommissioned the Panufnik

Kindertotenlieder Fanfare for theCommonMan PianoConcerto No3

Fanfare for theUncommon Symphony No13, BabiYar †

Accused Norfolk Rhapsody No1

23 Classical Music Nov 2020 24 Classical Music Nov 2020 multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–60 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) Seong-Jin Chopiano Gianandrea Noseda conductor London Symphony Orchestra Prokofiev Tchaikovsky PianoConcerto No1 Shostakovich Thu 12 Nov 7.30pm multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–35 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) Simon Halsey chorusdirector Symphony Chorus Gentlemen of the London Alexander Vinogradov bass Gianandrea Noseda conductor &presenter London Symphony Orchestra Shostakovich Symphony No13, BabiYar Half SixFix Wed 11 Nov 6.30pm * Free event Fri 13 Nov 12.30pm, LSOSt Luke’s LSO/Noseda LSO/Noseda: Shostakovich Lunchtime Concert LSO Discovery: Free Friday pay booking fees fees booking pay don't &Young Barbican Members Barbican Office. Box the from person in purchased There is no booking fee when tickets are tickets when fee booking no is There per transaction: £3 online, £4 by telephone. The following booking fees are applicable fees Booking Symphony No5

The Age of GoldSuite

Schubert ECHO RisingStars Fri 20Nov 1pm,LSOSt Luke’s multibuy SO BBC of Part fee*Tickets £12–40 booking plus James Ehnesviolin Sir Andrew Davisconductor BBC Symphony Orchestra Mahler Symphony No10 (compDeryck Cooke) Berg ViolinConcerto Wed 18 Nov 7.30pm commission) Vasco MendonçaNew work (ECHO D 934 Presents Barbican of Part Tickets £12 fee* booking plus Zoltán Fejérváripiano de lamusique–PhilharmonieParis) Diana Tishchenko violin(Nominated by Cité Ravel Sofia GubaidulinaDancerOnATightrope Diana Tishchenko BBC SO/Davis

Tzigane Fantasie

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multibuy AAM of Part fee* Tickets £15–35 booking plus Free to ticket-holders Pre-concert talk 6.30pm DaviescountertenorIestyn Richard Egarrdirector &harpsichord Academy of AncientMusic Vivaldi Instrumental Suite from Radamisto Sinfonia from Rodelinda ‘Bel Contento’ from Flavio re de’Longobardi Purcell ‘Ombra maifu’from Serse ‘Gigue’ from GuilioCesare Handel Fri 20Nov 7.30pm, Milton Court James Ehnes©BenjaminEalovega Handel Vivaldi Handel ‘Strike theViol’from ComeYe Sonsof Art If MusicBetheFoodof Love Iestyn Davies & AAM The of theCountertenor:Art Pavan inGminor Nisi Dominus Cessate, omai,Cessate Concerto grosso from Alexander’s Feast Overture to Admeto re diTessaglia Keyboard Concerto, Op4No5

Debussy’s Complete Préludes Jean-Yves Thibaudet: Presents Barbican of Part Part of International Members multibuy Soloists fee* booking Tickets £15–46 plus Jean-Yves Thibaudetpiano Debussy Mon 23Nov 7.30pm fee* booking plus Tickets £22 Simon Halsey conductor (accompanied by piano). Come andsingmusicby Elgar Sun 22Nov 11am, LSOSt Luke’s LSO Discovery SingingDay Pré ludes ludes

25 Classical Music Nov 2020 26 Classical Music Nov 2020 Lunchtime Concert LSO Discovery: Free Friday multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–60 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) Stephen MillingKingMarke Graham ClarkMelot Jamie Barton Brangaene Stuart Skelton Tristan Nina Stemme Isolde Sir SimonRattle conductor London Symphony Orchestra Wagner Act Two of Tristan andIsolde Sun 29Nov 7pm Free entry, noticket required Fri 27Nov 12.30pm, LSOSt Luke’s multibuy SO BBC of Part fee* Tickets £12–40 booking plus Conrad Tao piano BrabbinsMartyn conductor BBC Symphony Orchestra Stravinsky Symphony inThree Movements Piano (UKpremiere) Dai Fujikura PianoConcerto No4, Akiko’s Vaughan WilliamsSymphony No6 Wed 25Nov 7.30pm BBC SO/Brabbins Isolde Act Two LSO/Rattle: Tristanand

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27 Classical Music 2020– 21 Awesome orchestras 2020– 21 2020– Mon 21 Sep 19–21 Oct 21 2020– City of Birmingham Symphony Australian Chamber Orchestra Orchestra/Gražinyte˙ -Tyla residency Three of the leading lights of the UK’s classical In three typically fascinating programmes music scene join forces. Nicola Benedetti from our International Associate Ensemble at joins Mirga Gražinyte ˙ -Tyla and the CBSO for Milton Court, Richard Tognetti’s trailblazing Sibelius’s technically formidable Violin Concerto, orchestra compare music by two profoundly sandwiched between Ravel’s rapturous tribute religious composers from very different Christian to the waltz La valse and Stravinsky’s ground- traditions; get under the skin of Beethoven’s breaking The Rite of Spring. Kreutzer Sonata; and pair music by indie composers Jonny Greenwood and Bryce Mon 12 Oct Dessner with the 20th-century Polish greats The Cleveland Orchestra/ they idolise – Penderecki, Szymanowski, and Welser-Möst Lutosławski. A rare UK visit from one of America’s most Thu 22 Oct storied orchestras. Opening with Thomas Adès’s BBC Symphony Orchestra: Angel Symphony – drawing material from the composer’s hit opera The Exterminating 90th birthday concert Angel – Mozart’s refined Piano Concerto No 9 Celebrate 90 years of the BBC SO and their follows with Igor Levit as soloist. The rich colour, pivotal role in UK music history. BBC SO powerful orchestration and heady romance Principal Guest Conductor Dalia Stasevska of Scriabin’s Symphony No 2 offers a striking leads a programme made up of music they contrast to close. introduced to Britain for the first time alongside timeless classics. Thu 15 Oct London Symphony Orchestra/ Sat 13 Feb © Ben Ealovega © Ben Ealovega Gardiner Czech Philharmonic/Bychkov Sir John Eliot Gardiner responds to the Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos performed LSO’s annual theme ‘dancing on the edge by the Labèque sisters comes between two of a volcano’ with a programme of music by gems from the orchestra’s homeland: Kabelac’s Stravinsky and Bartók: two musical emigrées Mystery of Time – an incredible symphonic who left their homelands in turbulent times – in slow-burner – and the beloved masterpiece of Bartók’s case, permanently. their nation’s greatest composer, Dvorˇ ák’s New World Symphony. Classical Music Classical Music 28 29 December Britten Sinfonia: EightSeasons multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–60 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) Krystian Zimerman piano Sir SimonRattle conductor London Symphony Orchestra Beethoven PianoConcerto No1 Hindemith Beethoven PianoConcerto No2 Thu 3Dec7.30pm multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–60 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) Stephen MillingKingMarke Graham Clark Melot Jamie Barton Brangaene Stuart Skelton Tristan Nina Stemme Isolde Sir SimonRattle conductor London Symphony Orchestra Wagner Two Act of Isolde Actand Two LSO/Rattle: Tristan Tue 1Dec7.30pm Thu 3Dec7.30pm, Milton Court Pre-concert talk 6.30pm Thomas Goulddirector &violin Britten Sinfonia Piazzolla Vivaldi Tickets £15–35 plus booking fee* Tickets £15–35 booking plus Free to ticket-holders & Krystian Zimerman LSO/Rattle The FourSeasons The FourSeasonsof BuenosAires Symphonic Dances

Tristan andIsolde

* pay booking fees fees booking pay don't &Young Barbican Members Barbican Office. Box the from person in purchased are tickets when fee booking no is There per transaction: £3 online, £4 by telephone. The following booking fees are applicable fees Booking My FavouriteMy Things Joyce DiDonato: Tickets £16 fee* booking plus the musicof Paul Hindemith. Talks andchamberperformances exploring Sun 6Dec2pm,SilkStreet MusicHall Things Favourite DiDonato’s Joyce of Part Rossi Sinfonia from Orfeo Part I:Gliantichi Sat 5Dec7.30pm Presents Barbican of Part fee* booking Tickets £15–66 plus Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano Francesco Corticonductor Il Pomo d’Oro from Handel ‘Scherzainfida’ and‘Doponotte’ ‘Danza deglispettriedellefurie’from DonJuan ‘Che faro senzaEuridice’from Orfeo eEuridice II of DonGiovanni Gluck ‘Minuett’and‘Melodia’from Act IIScene Giulio Cesare Handel ‘Piangeròlasorte mia’from Antonio eCleopatra Hasse ‘Morte colfiero aspetto’ from Part II:Imoderni Monteverdi Dowland Buonamente from d'Ulisse inpatria Monteverdi ‘Illustratevi’ from Il ritorno Monteverdi Merula Cesti ‘Intorno allidolmio’from Orontea LSO Discovery Day: Hindemith Ariodante L’Incoronazione diPoppea Ciaccona Come again, sweet love

Sinfonia and‘Disprezzata regina’ Si dolceèiltormento Il ballodeireali amanti

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31 Classical Music Dec 2020 32 Classical Music Dec 2020 Zimerman LSO/Rattle &Krystian multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–60 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) Krystian Zimermanpiano Beethoven Presents Barbican of Part Part of International Members multibuy Soloists fee*Tickets £15–41 booking plus Jonathan Bisspiano Mark Padmore tenor Kerner Lieder Hans ChristianAndersen Sechs Gedichte undRequiem R SchumannLiederkreis Schumann Mark Padmore &JonathanBiss: Tue 8Dec7.30pm, Milton Court Sir SimonRattle conductor London Symphony Orchestra Piano Concerto No5 Hindemith Wed 9Dec7.30pm Mark Padmore ©Marco Borggreve Symphonic metamorphosis Piano Concerto No4

Lieder

guaranteed to Day Pass holders holders Pass to Day guaranteed admission but capacity limited event, Free Talk: Tanglewood Now 3.30pm, Fountain Room Tickets £15 fee* booking plus Guildhall Schoolmusicians The New Fromm Players Carter String Quartet No1 Augusta Read Thomas Crawford SeegerString Quartet 1931 George Lewis New work (UKpremiere) Concert: Chambermusic 1pm, Milton Court holders Pass to Day guaranteed admission but capacity limited event, Free Talk: WhatisTanglewood? 11am, Fountain Room availability Limited 18from Mar) only, person in or fee* (telephone booking plus £40 Total Day Immersion the in events all to entry guaranteed Pass: Day Totally Tanglewood BBC SO Total Immersion: Sat 12 Dec,Across theCentre

Magic Box

multibuy SO BBC of Part fee*Tickets £12–40 booking plus Sam Furness tenor Eleanor Dennissoprano WhatelyKitty mezzo-soprano Trinity Boys Choir BBC Symphony Chorus Ryan Wigglesworth conductor BBC Symphony Orchestra Britten premiere, BBC co-commission) Bernard Rands Helen Grime Copland Knussen BBC SO/Wigglesworth 7.30pm Tickets £15 fee* booking plus Guildhall Schoolmusicians Concert: Songsandpianomusic 5pm, Milton Court Spring Symphony

Symphony No2,ShortSymphony Fanfares for Tanglewood Limina (UKpremiere) (UK Symphonic Fantasy (UK

33 Classical Music Dec 2020 34 Classical Music Dec 2020 Anderson Poston multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–60 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) Krystian Zimermanpiano Sir SimonRattle conductor London Symphony Orchestra Piano Concerto No5 Piano Concerto No4 Piano Concerto No2 Piano Concerto No3 Beethoven PianoConcerto No1 Piano Concertos LSO/Rattle: Beethoven Thu 17 Dec6pm fee*Tickets £12–40 booking plus BBC Singers John Rutter conductor Bob Chilcott conductor BBC ConcertOrchestra Plus carols for choirandaudience Symphony Hely-Hutchinson Selectionsfrom A Carol Finzi Mary’s Lullaby John Rutter Bob Chilcott Excerpts from OnChristmasNight Programme to include: John Rutter andtheBBC Singers Christmas withBobChilcott, Tue 15 Dec7.30pm In terra pax Balulalow

Sleigh Ride Shepherd’s PipeCarol

Sun 20Dec7pm&Tue 22Dec7.30pm multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–60 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) Simon Halsey chorusdirector London Symphony Chorus Tiffin Boys’ Choir Elliot Madore baritone Sunnyboy Dladla tenor Christina Poulitsi soprano Alice Sara Ottpiano Gianandrea Noseda conductor London Symphony Orchestra Orff Saint-Saëns PianoConcerto No2 LSO/Noseda multibuy AAM of Part fee* Tickets booking £15–50 plus Free to ticket-holders Pre-concert talk 6.30pm Choir of AAM Ashley Richesbass Ben Johnsontenor DaviescountertenorIestyn Rowan Pierce soprano Richard Egarrdirector &harpsichord Academy of AncientMusic Handel Handel’s Messiah Fri 18 Dec7.30pm Carmina Burana Messiah

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35 Classical Music 2020–21 36 Classical Music 2020– 21 Thorvaldsdottir. and atmosphericcontemporary work of Anna from theromanticism of Brahms to thetimeless Voices andPoems of Ecstasy, musicranges Goethe inSong,Songsof Farewell, American of St Giles’Cripplegate. Taking thethemesof evening choral concertsinthebeautifulchurch The BBC Singersperform aseriesof early Singers atSix 9 Oct,22Jan,19 Feb,13 May Choral highlights

heart-wrenching andmyth-shrouded Requiem. superb, handpicked ChoeurAccentus inMozart’s uncompromising InsulaOrchestra andher Laurence Equilbey conductsherenergising, Mozart’s Requiem Tue 13 Oct

Tue 23Mar composer’s own fervent Catholicism. is abeautifulmeditation stemming from the his judgementbefore God,thismasterpiece ‘everyman’ Gerontius from hisdeathbedto choral work. Following themystical journey of Orchestra andChorusinElgar’sgreatest Sir SimonRattle conductstheLondon Symphony Elgar’s TheDream 10 &12 Jan expression of hisdeeplyheldfaith. ounce of dramatic flair to thisalmostoperatic barnstorming overtures, Rossini bringsevery last Drawing onalife’s work of theatricalopera and Rossini’s ironically named‘little’solemnmass. roots conductinghisSanta CeciliaChorusin Sir Antonio Pappano celebrates hisItalian Solennelle Rossini’s Petite Messe of Gerontius

the Priest. music fit for royalty, includingthemajesticZadok outpouring of joyful, stirring,andawe-inspiring Niquet conductsLeConcertSpirituelinan coronation anthemsfor KingGeorge II.Hervé Handel turnsthepower upto eleven inhis Handel’s Coronation Anthems Tue 15 Jun much-deserved revival. this oratorio basedonMilton’s epicgetsa Having beenforgotten andneglected for years, who was atalented composerinhisown right. of Handel’ssecretary, JohnChristopher Smith, AAM shinealightonthemostsuccessfulwork Richard EgarrandourAssociate Ensemblethe Paradise Lost Academy of AncientMusic: Sun 28Mar

37 Classical Music 2020– 21 January * pay booking fees fees booking pay don't &Young Barbican Members Barbican Office. Box the from person in purchased are tickets when fee booking no is There per transaction: £3 online, £4 by telephone. The following booking fees are applicable fees Booking Free event Lunchtime Concert LSO Discovery: Free Friday Fri 8Jan12.30pm, LSOSt Luke’s multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–60 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) Leonidas Kavakos violin Sir SimonRattle conductor London Symphony Orchestra Schubert premiere; LSOco-commission) Unsuk ChinViolinConcerto No2(world Haydn Symphony No86 LSO/Rattle Gabriella Smith Great Britain National Youth Orchestra of Mon 4Jan7pm Thu 7Jan7.30pm fee*Tickets £10–27 booking plus Cristian Macelaru conductor National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain R Strauss Adam Schoenberg Symphony No9,TheGreat Alpine Symphony

Field Guide

Losing Earth

LSO/Rattle multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–60 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) Simon Halsey chorusdirector Guildhall SchoolSingers Mitsuko Uchidapiano Sir SimonRattle conductor London Symphony Orchestra Schubert Symphony No9,TheGreat R SchumannPianoConcerto Weill Thu 14 Jan7.30pm multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–60 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) Simon Halsey chorusdirector London Symphony Chorus John Relyea bass Stuart Skelton tenor Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Sir SimonRattle conductor London Symphony Orchestra Elgar Sun 10 Jan7pm&Tue 12 Jan7.30pm Gerontius LSO/Rattle: The Dream of Alice Coote ©Jiyang Chen Mahagonny: EinSongspiel The Dream of Gerontius

multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–60 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) James Ehnesviolin John Wilsonconductor London Symphony Orchestra Copland (arr Bennett) Gershwin Weill Concerto for ViolinandWindInstruments Barber Thu 21 Jan7.30pm multibuy SO BBC of Part fee*Tickets £12–40 booking plus BBC Singers Daniela Mack Josefa Segovia Benedict NelsonClarence Hye JungLeeAhSing Paul Appleby JoeCannon Davóne TinesNedPeters Julia BullockDameShirley Kenneth Richardson director John Adams conductor BBC Symphony Orchestra (UK premiere) John Adams Sun 17 Jan6.30pm Golden West BBC SO/Adams: Girlsof the LSO/Wilson The Schoolfor Scandal Symphonic Ode Porgy andBess:ASymphonicPicture

Girls of theGoldenWest

39 Classical Music Jan 2021 40 Classical Music BBC SO/Madaras Fri 22Jan7.30pm plusconcert) booking fee* Tickets £10 (£8 for ticket-holders to the 7.30pm Daniel Hydeconductor BBC Singers þann heilaga kross Heyr þúosshimnumá Anna Thorvaldsdottir multibuy SO BBC of Part fee*Tickets £12–40 booking plus Vadim Repin violin Daniel Hopeviolin Gergely Madaras conductor BBC Symphony Orchestra Ravel) Mussorgsky Michael Jarrell premiere) Mark-Anthony Turnage Ravel Parry Singers atSix Fri 22Jan6pm,St Giles’Cripplegate * Songs of Farewell pay booking fees fees booking pay don't &Young Barbican Members Barbican Office. Box the from person in purchased There is no booking fee when tickets are tickets when fee booking no is There per transaction: £3 online, £4 by telephone. The following booking fees are applicable fees Booking Songs of Farewell Gaspard delanuit(orch Constant)

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Heyr migmínsál Shadow Walker (UK

multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–60 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) Eric Lupiano Marin Alsopconductor London Symphony Orchestra Rachmaninov Beethoven PianoConcerto No4 in theDark Weill Thu 28Jan7.30pm multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–35 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) Marin Alsopconductor &presenter London Symphony Orchestra Rachmaninov Half SixFix LSO/Alsop: Rachmaninov Wed 27Jan6.30pm Presents Barbican of Part Part of International Members Orchestras multibuy fee* Tickets booking £15–56 plus Zubin Mehta conductor Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Dvorˇ ák Symphony No.7 Stravinsky Symphony inThree Movements Wagner Mon 25Jan7.30pm Orchestra Bavarian Radio Symphony LSO/Alsop ‘Symphonic Nocturne’from Lady Overture to Rienzi

Symphonic Dances Symphonic Dances

BBC SO/Stasevska Anna Clyne Fri 29Jan7.30pm Guildhall Alumni Series Alumni Guildhall and Presents Barbican of Part Tickets £15 fee* booking plus James Middleton piano Barbican Centre) James Newby baritone (nominated by the The lastrose of Summer Britten Abendstern Auf derBruck Auf derDonau Schubert (ECHO commission) Judith Binghamnew work Urlicht Revelge Mahler An dieferne Geliebte Adelaide Beethoven There’s noneto soothe Britten ECHO RisingStars From theDistant Beloved James Newby: Fri 29Jan7.30pm, Milton Court multibuy SO BBC of Part fee*Tickets £12–40 booking plus Andrew Watts countertenor Dalia Stasevska conductor BBC Symphony Orchestra Rachmaninov Symphony No3 Lior Rosner

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Maigesang

Metamorphosis (world premiere) Masquerade

LSO/Chan Explore Scarlatti multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–60 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) Javier Perianes piano Elim Chanconductor London Symphony Orchestra Ravel Rimsky-Korsakov Saint-Saëns PianoConcerto No5 Ravel Sun 31 Jan7pm Presents Barbican of Part fee*Tickets £15–41 booking plus Aline Zylberajch fortepiano Angela Hewitt piano Mahan Esfahani harpsichord influenced output. contrasting perspectives onhisplayful, Spanish- Join three of hismostpassionate championsfor what was possibleonakeyboard instrument. Domenico Scarlattipushedtheboundariesof Sun 31 Jan2pm,Milton Court Angela Hewitt ©Richard Termine

Boléro Mother GooseSuite

Capriccio Español

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43 Classical Music 2020–2020–21 21 February LSO/Ward multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–60 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) Isabelle Faustviolin Duncan Ward conductor London Symphony Orchestra Debussy Chausson Janácˇ ek Bartók ViolinConcerto No1 Thu 11 Feb7.30pm Liszt Scherzo No3inC-sharpminor, Op39 Chopin Polonaise inA-flat major, Op53Heroic Rhapsody No2inGminor Rhapsody No1inBminor Intermezzo inAmajor, Op118 No2 Brahms Intermezzo inBflat minor, Op117 No2 Liszt ‘Notturno No3’,Liebestraum (after BWV 543) Bach-Liszt Prelude andFugueAminor BWV 867 Bach Prelude andFugueinB-flat minor, Wed 10 Feb7.30pm Presents Barbican of Part Part of International Members multibuy Soloists fee*Tickets £15–51 booking plus Khatia Buniatishvili piano Prokofiev Khatia Buniatishvili inrecital Grand GalopChromatique

La mer Taras Bulba Sonata No7 Poème

multibuy SO BBC of Part fee*Tickets £12–40 booking plus Finchley Children’s MusicGroup BBC Symphony Chorus Peter Tantsits tenor François-Frédéric Guypiano Sakari Oramo conductor BBC Symphony Orchestra Stravinsky Schoenberg PianoConcerto Ravel BBC SO/Oramo Fri 12 Feb7.30pm Free entry, noticket required Fri 12 Feb12.30pm, LSOSt Luke’s Katia andMarielleLabèque©Umberto Nicoletti Lunchtime Concert LSO Discovery: Free Friday

Boléro Perséphone

* pay booking fees fees booking pay don't &Young Barbican Members Barbican Office. Box the from person in purchased are tickets when fee booking no is There per transaction: £3 online, £4 by telephone. The following booking fees are applicable Booking fees Booking BBC Singers Family Concert Tickets £10–16, fee* under-18s £5 booking plus Nicholas Chalmersconductor BBC Singers Programme to beannounced Sun 14 Feb2pm,Milton Court Presents Barbican of Part Part of International Members Orchestras multibuy fee* Tickets booking £15–56 plus Marielle Labèquepiano Katia Labèquepiano Semyon Bychkov conductor Czech Philharmonic k rá ˇ vo D Mozart Concerto for Two PianosinE-flat major Large Orchestra Kabelácˇ Sat 13 Feb7.30pm fee* booking plus Tickets £8 LSO musicians Soundhub schemepresent new music. Composers onPhaseIIof LSODiscovery’s Sat 13 Feb7pm,LSO St Luke’s Phase IIShowcase LSO Discovery: Soundhub Czech Philharmonic/Bychkov Symphony No9,From theNew World The Mystery of Time/Passacaglia for

45 Classical Music Feb 2021 46 Classical Music Feb 2021 (world premiere) Sir JamesMacMillan Three Scottish Songs Trad DanishSonderhoBridalTrilogy Bartók Irish Tune from CountyDerry Grainger Britten Í Sir JamesMacMillan † Britten Sinfonia Bartók Thu 18 Feb7.30pm, Milton Court Varèse Half SixFix Wed 17 Feb6.30pm François-Xavier Roth conductor &presenter London Symphony Orchestra Bartók ViolinConcerto No2 multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–35 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) Isabelle Faustviolin Jacqueline Shave director &violin Tickets £15–35 plus booking fee* Tickets £15–35 booking plus Free to ticket-holders Pre-concert talk 6.30pm Ian Bostridgetenor Britten Sinfonia &IanBostridge LSO/Roth: Varèse &Bartók

Sir JamesMacMillan conductor (A Meditation on Iona) (A Meditation onIona) Four FolkSongs ‘Burlesque’ from String Quartet No6 Romanian Dances Intégrales Molly ontheShore †

BBC SO/Vedernikov Poems of Ecstasy multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–60 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) Isabelle Faustviolin François-Xavier Roth conductor London Symphony Orchestra R Strauss Bartók ViolinConcerto No2 multibuy SO BBC of Part fee*Tickets £12–40 booking plus Nikolai Luganskypiano Alexander Vedernikov conductor BBC Symphony Orchestra Scriabin Stravinsky Symphony inC Medtner Josquin desPrez Singers atSix Fri 19 Feb6pm,St Giles’Cripplegate Varèse Thu 18 Feb7.30pm Hannah Lash LSO/Roth Fri 19 Feb7.30pm plusconcert) booking fee* Tickets £10 (£8 for ticket-holders to the 7.30pm Benjamin Baylconductor BBC Singers (UK premiere) Intégrales The Poem of Ecstasy Piano Concerto No3 Ein Heldenleben

Requiem pro avibus mortuis

Stabat Mater dolorosa

LSO/Noseda Lunchtime Concert LSO Discovery: Free Friday Britten ViolinConcerto Thu 25Feb7.30pm &Sun28Feb7pm multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–60 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) Janine Jansenviolin Gianandrea Noseda conductor London Symphony Orchestra Shostakovich Presents Barbican of Part Part of International Members multibuy Soloists fee*Tickets £15–41 booking plus Louise Hopkinscello Matthew Huntclarinet Alasdair Beatsonpiano Pekka Kuusisto violin Messiaen Milton CourtArtist-in-Residence Fri 26Feb7.30pm, Milton Court Free event Fri 26Feb12.30pm, LSOSt Luke’s Quartet for theEndof Time Pekka Kuusisto &Friends: Quartet for theEndof Time Symphony No11, TheYear 1905

47 Classical Music Feb 2021 Piano virtuosos 2020– 21 2020– Tue 3 Nov Wed 10 Feb 21 2020– Isata Kanneh-Mason Khatia Buniatishvili The eldest sibling of ‘Britain’s most musical Roam across the history of piano music with the family’ (The Times) steps into the limelight with brilliant Georgian, from the delicate precision a wide-ranging solo recital programme taking of Bach Preludes and Fugues to the playful in Beethoven and Barber Piano Sonatas, and yet mind-blowing virtuosity of Liszt, visiting the nocturnes from Chopin, Poulenc and Clara poetic and dramatic worlds of Brahms, Chopin Schumann. and Prokofiev en route.

Mon 23 Nov Mon 22 Mar Jean-Yves Thibaudet: Behzod Abduraimov Debussy’s Complete Preludes At just 29, the young Uzbek pianist has already Debussy railed against the term impressionism, been labelled ‘the most perfectly accomplished but there is no denying that the magical pictures pianist of his generation’ (Independent). He he paints with the piano in preludes such as presents a recital programme of Schumann’s La fille aux cheveux de lin and La cathédrale feverishly romantic Kreisleriana, Liszt’s heavenly engloutie opened up new dimensions of Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude and expression for the instrument – dimensions his Rachmaninov’s invigorating Variations on a fellow countryman will undoubtedly unlock. theme by Corelli.

Thu 17 Dec Wed 12 May Beethoven’s Complete Wang/Capuçon/ Piano Concertos Ottensamer trio Krystian Zimerman leads a musical journey of As far as classical supergroups go, this epic proportions performing all five Beethoven incredible trio has to be close to perfection. Each piano concertos back-to-back with the London a universally admired soloist, the combination of Symphony Orchestra – the perfect way for any pianist Yuja Wang, cellist Gautier Capuçon, and piano-lover to round off the iconic composer’s clarinettist Andreas Ottensamer guarantees an 250th anniversary year. exceptional musical experience. Clewley © Robin Classical Music Classical Music Classical Music 48 49 March Four Seasons AAM &Rachel Podger: Vivaldi’s Competition 2021Final Donatella Flick LSOConducting Fri 5Mar7.30pm In with the association London Handel Festival BBC SO/Oramo multibuy SO BBC of Part fee*Tickets £12–40 booking plus BBC Symphony Chorus Renaud Capuçonviolin Sakari Oramo conductor BBC Symphony Orchestra Ravel Korngold ViolinConcerto inD Betsy Jolas multibuy AAM of Part fee* Tickets booking £15–50 plus Free to ticket-holders Pre-concert talk 6.30pm Rachel Podger violin Richard Egarrdirector &harpsichord Academy of AncientMusic Vivaldi Handel Corelli Handel Wed 3Mar7.30pm multibuy LSO of Part to 1Mar 27 Feb from rehearsal final and rounds earlier to the entry allow Tickets also Tickets £18–35 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) London Symphony Orchestra Ravel Brahms Berlioz Mon 1Mar7pm Suite No2from DaphnisandChloe Daphnis andChloe Concerto Grosso Nos1&2,Op6 The FourSeasons Overture to Le Concerto Grosso No7, Op6 Concerto Grosso No6,Op6 Variations onaThemeby Haydn Letters from Bachville (UKpremiere)

Carnaval Romain

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Symphony No1 La valse Alborada delgracioso Symphony No3

Jeu decartes

51 Classical Music Mar 2021 52 Classical Music Mar 2021 Tickets £12–25 fee* booking plus Sakari Oramo conductor BBC Symphony Orchestra Pohjola’s Daughter The Bard En Saga Sibelius Concert: Stories, QuestsandSecret Sagas 3pm Tickets £15 fee* booking plus Guildhall Schoolmusicians A selectionof Sibelius’ssongsandmelodramas. Concert: Phantoms, Visions&Siren Voices 1pm, Milton Court first-served basis first-come on entry capacity, limited event, Free Talk: SibeliusandStorytelling 11am, Fountain Room availability Limited 18from Mar) only, person in or fee* (telephone booking plus £50 Total day, Immersion 11am excluding talk the in events all to entry guaranteed Pass: Day the Storyteller BBC SO Total Immersion: Sibelius Sat 13 Mar, Across theCentre Sakari Oramo ©MarkAllan

‘All’Overtura’ from ScènesHistoriques 1

multibuy SO BBC of Part Tickets £12–25 fee* booking plus Anu Komsi soprano Sakari conductor Oramo BBC Symphony Orchestra Tapiola Luonnotar Soluppgång Kaiutar (arrJalas) Sibelius and Immersions Concert: Crossings, Creations 7.30pm Tickets £15 fee* booking plus Owain Park conductor BBC Singers Sibelius Toivo Kuula Selectionsfrom Part Songs,Op11 Leevi Madetoja Selected partsongs Sibelius Selectionsfrom Part Songs, Concert: FinnishChoral Music 5.30pm, Milton Court

Nightride and Sunrise Nightride andSunrise Rakastava

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Cello Sonata Cello Sonata, Op65 Tema ‘Sacher’

Cello Sonata inCmajor, Op102 Messe Solennelle

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9–12 Sep Thu 29 Apr An Anatomy of Melancholy Britten Sinfonia Be drawn into the melancholic world of John & Nora Fischer: Penelope Dowland by countertenor Iestyn Davies, lutenist Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Odyssey-inspired song Thomas Dunford and the creative wizardry cycle offers a thoughtful meditation on memory, of director Netia Jones. Immersive visuals identity and what it means to come home. The and staging will bring this intimate theatrical extraordinary Dutch vocalist Nora Fischer and experience to life, examining the entirety of ever-versatile Britten Sinfonia are the perfect human experience through the lens of 17th- artists to deftly weave together the worlds of century melancholy. art song, indie rock and chamber folk in this gorgeous, haunting and poetic performance Fri 20 Nov piece. Academy of Ancient Music: The Art of the Countertenor Tue 11 May Iestyn Davies lends the crystal-clear purity of Nathalie Stutzmann: his voice to a whirlwind survey of music for The Power of Love countertenor by the Baroque masters Handel, Enjoy an evening of sweeping romance, fiery Purcell and Vivaldi. passion and ardent love in the company of Debussy, Fauré and Schubert. Plus, take the Tue 8 Dec chance to encounter a selection of beautiful Mark Padmore songs by French Romantic composer Ernest & Jonathan Biss: Schumann Chausson – an exceptional student of Massenet Wijzenbeek © Sarah and Franck, whose life was tragically cut short. An evening in the magical universe of Robert Schumann is crowned by one of the truly great Romantic song cycles, Liederkreis. Roaming from wistful reverence to ecstatic rapture, this unabashedly romantic love-letter to Clara Schumann and the German landscape is guaranteed to warm your heart and lift your soul. Classical Music Classical Music 56 57 April * pay booking fees fees booking pay don't &Young Barbican Members Barbican Office. Box the from person in purchased are tickets when fee booking no is There per transaction: £3 online, £4 by telephone. The following booking fees are applicable fees Booking Presents Barbican of Part fee* Tickets booking £15–56 plus Monteverdi Choir Sir JohnEliot Gardiner conductor English Baroque Soloists J SBach St JohnPassion St JohnPassion Sir JohnEliot Gardiner: Bach’s Fri 2Apr3pm Presents Barbican of Part Tickets £12 fee* booking plus Kölner Philharmonie) Vanessa Porter percussion (nominated by Vinko Globokar Ombre (ECHO commission) Georges Aperghis TheMessenger Alexander SandiKuhn Àdeux Georges Aperghis Lescorpsa perfezione Salvatore SciarrinoAppendicealla David LangAnvil Chorus Emil Kuyumcuyan Shapes Vinko Globokar ?Corporel Vanessa Porter Folie ECHO RisingStars Vanessa Porter Fri 2Apr1pm,LSOSt Luke’s

multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–35 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) Gianandrea Nosedaconductor &presenter London Symphony Orchestra Tchaikovsky Half SixFix LSO/Noseda: Tchaikovsky Thu 8Apr6.30pm Presents Barbican of Part Part of International Members multibuy Soloists fee* booking Tickets £15–46 plus Piotr Anderszewski piano Tempered Clavier Book2 J SBach 12 Preludes andFuguesfrom Well- Piotr Anderszewski plays Bach Wed 7Apr7.30pm Nicola Benedetti©SimonFowler Symphony No6,Pathétique

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59 Classical Music Apr 2021 60 Classical Music Apr 2021 Handel’s Tamerlano The EnglishConcert: Mon 12 Apr6.30pm multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–60 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) Sir SimonRattle conductor London Symphony Orchestra The Rite of Spring Petrushka (1947) Stravinsky LSO/Rattle Thu 22Apr7pm event Free unexpected soundsinunexpected places. Save thedate for ourfree musicfestival of Sound Unbound 17–18 Apr, Across theCentre multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–60 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) Sir SimonRattle conductor London Symphony Orchestra Mahler Symphony No6 LSO/Rattle Thu 15 Apr7.30pm Presents Barbican of Part fee* Tickets booking £15–56 plus Ashley RichesLeone Sophie Bevan Asteria Jakub JozefOrlinskiAndronico Avery Amereau Irene Michael Spyres Bajazet Bejun Mehta Tamerlano Harry Bicket director The EnglishConcert Handel Tamerlano The Firebird

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Erwartung ‘Melody’ Violin Sonata inFmajor

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Tickets £15–35 plus booking fee* Tickets £15–35 booking plus Free to ticket-holders Pre-concert talk 6.30pm Nora Fischervocalist Britten Sinfonia Sarah KirklandSnider Britten Sinfonia &Nora Fischer Thu 29Apr7.30pm, Milton Court

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61 Classical Music Apr 2021 © Robin Clewley Photography 62 Classical Music 2020– 21 25 Sep,4Nov, 10 Mar pleasing Hungarian fusionof Pedro Itturalde’s crowd- Marcello’s OboeConcerto to theSpanish- recital ranges from thelyricismof Alessandro classical albumchart-topper RISE,Gillam’s 3 show underherbelt.Drawing largely onher Proms performance andherown BBC Radio already risenintheUK,withaLastNightof the The brilliantyoung saxophonist’s star has ECHO RisingStars: JessGillam Fri 11 Sep Classical futures mayhem intheirUKdebut. new level inanightof hilarious,chaotic musical take theiruniquebrand of humourto anentirely their trademark musicalweapons of choice–to YouTube sensationstheMelodicaMen–and classical concert-going,theBBC SOinvite Breaking down thestereotyped image of Melodica Men BBC Symphony Orchestra & Fri 9Oct and Strauss to ElgarandWalton. Sinaisky, inrepertoire spanningfrom Brahms Richard Farnes, Takuo Yuasa,andVassily being putthrough theirpaces by conductors Watch theorchestral musiciansof thefuture Guildhall Symphony Orchestra Pequeña Czarda.

of anAssistant Conductor positionwiththeLSO. Orchestra, competing for theprestigious prize Europe take thereins of theLondonSymphony See buddingyoung conductors from across 2021 Final Conducting Competition Donatella FlickLSO Mon 1Mar song. and lonelinessthrough GermanandBritish Beloved’ weaves alongaromantic pathof love The baritone’s programme ‘From theDistant multiple prestigious awards atjust27years old. for great things,already therecipient of European ECHORisingStars seriesisdestined We believe ournominationfor thepan- James Newby ECHO RisingStars: Fri 29Jan orchestra for thefirst time. experience theexcitement of alive symphony series istheperfect way for 7–12-year-olds to world of classicalmusic,thisfamily concert Introducing awholenew generation to the LSO Discovery FamilyConcerts 18 Oct,14 Mar, 8May

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Morceau deSalonfor oboe

Partita for Solo

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Goldberg Goldberg

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65 Classical Music May 2021 66 Classical Music May 2021 The Power of Love Nathalie Stutzmann: Presents Barbican of Part Part of International Members multibuy Soloists fee*Tickets £15–51 booking plus Andreas Ottensamer clarinet Gautier Capuçoncello Yuja Wang piano Zemlinsky Presents Barbican of Part Part of International Members multibuy Soloists fee*Tickets £15–41 booking plus Inger Södergren piano Nathalie Stutzmann contralto Verlaine ‘La merestplusbelle’from 3Mé ‘La chevelure’ from 3ChansonsdeBilitis Fleurs desblés Schubert Tue 11 May7.30pm, Milton Court Brahms Programme to include: Wed 12 May7.30pm Debussy ‘Lescloches’from 2Romances Le temps deslilas ‘Les heures’ from 3Lieder,Op27No1 ‘Les papillons’from SeptMé Fauré ‘Mandoline ’ Die jungeNonne An dieLaute Du bistdieRuh Lachen undWeinen Sehnsucht M Chausson ‘Sérénade italienne’ from Sept ‘Après unrêve’ from Trois Mé ‘Nell’ from Trois Mé ‘Clair delune’from DeuxMé de Venice Ottensamer Trio Wang/Capuçon/ é lodies, Op2No5 Clarinet Trio inAminor

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Tickets £12–25 fee* booking plus BBC Singers Sofi Jeanninconductor The EnglishConcert Haydn Mozart Fri 21 May7.30pm, Milton Court Mozart &HaydnMozart BBC Singers/Jeannin: Nelson Mass Solemn Vespers

67 Classical Music May 2021 68 Classical Music May 2021 * Umbrella Concert LA Phil/Adès: Late-night Green Fri 21 May10pm Part of International Members Orchestras multibuy fee* Tickets booking £15–56 plus Víkingur Ólafssonpiano Gustavo Dudamelconductor Los AngelesPhilharmonic Beethoven premiere) Daníel BjarnasonPianoConcerto (European Beethoven & Bjarnason LA Phil/Dudamel:Beethoven Fri 21 May7.30pm Presents Barbican of Part International Orchestral Partner Philharmonic Los Angeles Los AngelesPhilharmonicNew Francisco CollTuria Erika Fox winds William Marsey New work for gran partita Oliver Leith Thomas Adès at50 Free event Free Thomas Adès conductor Music Group pay booking fees fees booking pay don't &Young Barbican Members Barbican Office. Box the from person in purchased are tickets when fee booking no is There per transaction: £3 online, £4 by telephone. The following booking fees are applicable fees Booking

Hungarian Rhapsody Symphony No7 Leonora Overture No3 Honey Siren

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LSO/Tilson Thomas: Sibelius LSO/Tilson Thomas: multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–35 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) presenter Michael TilsonThomasconductor & London Symphony Orchestra Sibelius Half SixFix Wed 26May6.30pm multibuy AAM of Part fee* Tickets £15–35 booking plus Free to ticket-holders Pre-concert talk 6pm Giovanni Sollimadirector &cello Academy of AncientMusic concertos andsolocelloworks by JSBach Programme to includeBoccherinicello The Baroque Cello Giovanni Sollima: Sun 23May7pm,Milton Court Dalia Stasevska © Chris Christodoulou Symphony No5

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69 Classical Music May 2021 June/July * pay booking fees fees booking pay don't &Young Barbican Members Barbican Office. Box the from person in purchased are tickets when fee booking no is There per transaction: £3 online, £4 by telephone. The following booking fees are applicable fees Booking Errollyn Wallen: Dido’sGhost Developed in partnership with Mahogany Opera Mahogany with partnership in Developed Presents Barbican of Part fee*Tickets £15–41 booking plus cast to beannounced Frederic Wake-Walker director Wesley Stace libretto John Buttconductor Dunedin Consort Purcell Barbican andDunedinConsortco-commission) Errollyn Wallen intentions. warns hersister of hisjealouswife’s murderous events repeat themselves when Dido’sghost sister Annaasashipwrecked refugee. Buttragic he was destinedto found, welcomes Dido’s living withhisnew wife Lavinia inthekingdom within ahauntingstory from Ovid.Aeneas, now Dido’s Ghostframes Purcell’s originalopera Sat 5Jun7.30pm, Milton Court multibuy LSO of Part Tickets £18–60 (£10/15 fee* booking plus Wildcards) Yuja Wang piano Michael Tilson Thomasconductor London Symphony Orchestra Sibelius Symphony No5 Rachmaninov PianoConcerto No 2 Copland Orchestral Variations Thu 3Jun7.30pm LSO/Tilson Thomas Dido and Aeneas Dido andAeneas

Dido’s Ghost(world premiere;

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